setting high-level goals

I flew today to London for a meeting of the Terra Hunting Experiment science team. On the plane, I worked on a presentation that looks at the high-level goals of the survey and what survey-level and operational decisions will flow down from those goals. Like most projects, the project was designed to have a certain observing capacity (number of observing hours over a certain—long—period of time). But in my view, how you allocate that time should be based on (possibly reverse-engineered) high-level goals. I worked through a few possible goals and what they might mean for us. I'm hoping we will make some progress on this point this week.